Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.58.20
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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savituḥ
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of Savitā (the sun-god)
Sūrya — the visible Sun. Kālindī's father is the sun-god; her sister is Yamī (Yamunā), her brother is Yamarāja. A cosmic lineage. Gauḍīyas: every great river is daughter of light; she chooses the source of light.
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viṣṇum
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Lord Viṣṇu
She names her desired husband as Viṣṇu — the Bhāgavatam uses the name to signal her doctrinal clarity. Gauḍīya reading: she knows the Person she wants; the tapas is method, not search.
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vara - dam
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the bestower of boons
Compound vara (boon) + da (giver). Kṛṣṇa is not merely the goal; He is the giver of the boon by which He becomes the goal. Gauḍīya: bhakti itself is His gift; the tapas works only because He has consented to be its fruit.
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tapaḥ
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penance
From √tap — to heat. Penance burns away every desire except the one. Kālindī's tapaḥ is the long heat that has clarified her wish to a single point. Gauḍīyas: ekāgra-tapas is the prelude to ekāgra-bhakti.
As Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī points out, Śrīmatī Kālindī correctly understood that Lord Viṣṇu, being the source of all benedictions, is the supreme husband and can thus fulfill all the desires of His wife.
"Desiring beautiful Visnu, who can fulfill my desires, as my husband, I am doing penance."
She reveals her desire immediately, worrying he would suggest someone other than her desired man. Out of respect she describes her father as devasya. This indicates she is also a devatā. I desire as a husband only he who spreads himself everywhere (viṣṇum), who is the best, and who bestows all desires.
- Could you state your aim with Kālindī's clarity if asked?
- Where does penance shape your readiness for what you desire?
The Sun's own daughter sets her gaze on the One who is the Sun's source — water seeking its origin, light seeking the Lamp. Kālindī's penance is the cosmos' own reflex.
Sītā, daughter of the earth, did not survey suitors at her svayaṁvara so much as wait for Rāma to lift the bow that none other could lift (Rāmāyaṇa, Bāla-kāṇḍa). Her vow was as firm as Kālindī's: this one or none.
Gauḍīyas read the pattern: Lakṣmī-tattva, in each yuga's līlā, refuses every other husband. Kālindī's tapas is one more verse in that long śloka.
My note
Source: vedabase.io